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Nursultan Nazarbayev

President of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council from 1991 to 2022.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nursultan Nazarbayev” is president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nursultan, Nazarbayev and President, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2019, 2010, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nursultan, Nazarbayev and President is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2019, 2010 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nursultan Nazarbayev” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.